I think, we should be defined by what we want to be and what we will be, and not be defined by who we were.
People do say there are defined by what they have done. it seems to apply the most appropriately when we are dead, when people want to judge what your accomplishments are and what kind of life you have lived.
But we are living, we are alive. The past is part of us and part of what made us who we are today. But the past is also a shadow that should be cast behind us and not be overhanging clouds that fog our vision and our future -- because today is tomorrow's past, and so in fact we have the power to do something about today to become what we want to become tomorrow. The way ahead becomes distinct and clear, cheery and without fear.
More so, "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to me: it's their mistake, not my failing." -- Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize- wining physicist. We all have a frame that limits our mind and how open we think, the trick about this mindframe is that the moment you see the edge, it shifts itself out of your view, and opens up wider and wider. Eventually right or wrong only exists in parts of the frame when we zoom in and out of our perspectives.
I am just so glad now that I hesitated no more and waited no more. Just like the lyrics, cause life is short, there is no need to complicate...
Well open up your mind and see like me
open up your plans and damn you're free
look into your heart and you will find that the sky is yours
=)
People do say there are defined by what they have done. it seems to apply the most appropriately when we are dead, when people want to judge what your accomplishments are and what kind of life you have lived.
But we are living, we are alive. The past is part of us and part of what made us who we are today. But the past is also a shadow that should be cast behind us and not be overhanging clouds that fog our vision and our future -- because today is tomorrow's past, and so in fact we have the power to do something about today to become what we want to become tomorrow. The way ahead becomes distinct and clear, cheery and without fear.
More so, "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to me: it's their mistake, not my failing." -- Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize- wining physicist. We all have a frame that limits our mind and how open we think, the trick about this mindframe is that the moment you see the edge, it shifts itself out of your view, and opens up wider and wider. Eventually right or wrong only exists in parts of the frame when we zoom in and out of our perspectives.
I am just so glad now that I hesitated no more and waited no more. Just like the lyrics, cause life is short, there is no need to complicate...
Well open up your mind and see like me
open up your plans and damn you're free
look into your heart and you will find that the sky is yours
=)
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